Mark 12:20

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

[Now] there were [these] seven brothers; the first one got married, but when he died he left no children behind.

Cross References

Mark 12:19

“Teacher, Moses wrote to us [Deut. 25:5] that if a man’s brother dies, leaving his widow behind without having had any children, his brother should marry his widow and father children by her. These children would then be considered his [dead] brother’s.

Mark 12:21

So, the second one married his widow, and at his death he too left no children behind. Then the third one did the same thing.